Xbox One X review: A surprising amount of power in a very small box

The Xbox One X exceeds not only its predecessor, but also matches up to the majority (55 percent or more) of gaming PCs today—and for only $500. Pretty impressive, for a console.

In this video we go over a couple details like design and game compatibility, but most of it covers direct footage comparison from Gears of War 4. We put it head to head against the original Xbox One, Xbox One X both at 4k 30 and 1080p 60, and also a high end PC running 2 Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti’s.

Neddskorg

Your original Xbox One must have some sort of issue because Im still using my DAY ONE console it never gets hot actually it barely even gets warm and I never hear it and the kids are thrashing it often

Issam Hegazy

Issam Hegazy

Pleaz tell me whats the name of the character in bing bang theory who is a nurd with black hair and have a mother who is like a t.rex can anyone give me his name ??He looks exactly the same with this pc wanker on this video

Issam Hegazy

Oh my god i didnt see all people comments before puting my own one hahaha EVERY ONE UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE JUST A PC WANKER who get nervous with the X like so many other pc wankers…I think there is no console who hurted more pc wankers (with painal ) as the X in all gzming history . BRAVO microsoft

Luis Vasquez

Ken Breisch

U must be mixing up a vacuum cleaner and the Xbox One, mine is 3 years old and dead quiet….same for all my friends, so no not EVERYONE has a laud Xbox One. If you know your history, the size of the Xbox One was there to put as many fans and vents in as possible to have 0{9298387cbdd38647ed64074aa9905d22c96d5287233381b7ccdff0bc9d011548} chance of read ring of dead. I know that u guys are PC gamers but still, get your facts right, or maybe clean your house so u don*t fill your electronics with dust 🙂

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Brian Harris

In order for them to even get close to the performance in the Xbox One X they would have to spend $1,000 minimum and buy everything on sale. Then they would have to spend hours every week tweaking downloading new drivers for the games they own. And a Blu-ray HDR drive for a PC is half the price of an Xbox One X console by itself. I have an $1,800 gaming computer with an Asus Rog 16GB of memory and 2 ATI video cards that cost me $300 a piece and the Xbox One X still blows my computer away. And when that guy said that 99 out of 100 teams if you go to any school and ask them what they would rather game on he said they would say PC he is so far out of touch is not even funny. And I love when they throw the Xbox Live service in your face for $50 for the year I end up with thousands of dollars and free games for nothing. Then if you want to capture your game exploits you would have to buy a floor to $600 PC capture card to capture the games that you're playing on Steam. My Xbox One X I can capture game exploits in 4k. There is no comparison you can't even compare the console to a PC PC will be twice as expensive require more maintenance and the only thing a PC has going for it is its versatility but even that's going away because now I end up spending a lot of time on Internet Explorer on my Xbox. And while I'm playing on my Xbox I use my Xbox One X app on my Android phone I could do both at the same time. They're just clueless this shouldn't even be a comparison !

Brian Harris

The Xbox One X is going to change gaming industry forever and it will set a trend that will make the PC gaming machine literally disappear. PCS will go back to what they're supposed to be for email banking doing your papers at work the college Kidd they will go back to being utility machine. This console is to the gaming World NPCs with the Sega Genesis did to 8 bit games and color tv's. it will change an entire industry suddenly the bang-for-the-buck will become a deciding factor again. Ease-of-use performance and quality will now be expected from every console from this day forward. And I don't understand why PC people are getting so upset because this console is going to drop prices on PC gaming parts because the manufacturers are going to have to now compete with the real threat that can steal the remaining people still gaming on PC. There is 1.6 billion people gaming in the world today it is almost half and half this console will put the console over the top in the gaming industry. Below is a quote from the. ESA gaming industry paper they gives the amount of users.The amount of gamers in the world has reached 1.8 billion, with 1.2 billion gamers playing on PC.62{9298387cbdd38647ed64074aa9905d22c96d5287233381b7ccdff0bc9d011548} of gamers use a PC while 56{9298387cbdd38647ed64074aa9905d22c96d5287233381b7ccdff0bc9d011548} use a console.https://mygaming.co.za/news/features/89913-there-are-1-8-billion-gamers-in-the-world-and-pc-gaming-dominates-the-market.html

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Clara Sharp

Wow!!??? This has to be a complete idiot???!! No real gamer wants a pc!!! Nothing that PC has can beat the power at this price point for $500!!??? Between PlayStation fans and PC gamers, u guys r hilarious 😂😂😂!!! Stop hating on what Microsoft was able to put together at a beautiful price point!!! What a garbage comparison and twisted review! 😑

LordWanFu

Wow. Just…WOW. I consider myself to be a pretty heavily biased PC gaming person, but I honestly try to combat my bias by actually bothering to LEARN things about the console systems, as well as owning them (mainly for exclusives). Did this guy come straight out of /pcmasterrace subreddit? If he wasn't going to bother to do any reading about the XB1X, then he should have at least watched one or two videos about the console on the Digital Foundry YouTube channel.

Upon release, what is really so powerful about the XB1X is the fact that it takes the horrible compromise of dynamic resolution scaling (DRS) that was widespread for the original XB1, and turns it into a way to deliver better performance for the entire back catalogue that was forced to utilize DRS in an attempt to deliver 30fps. Many games on PS4 used fixed resolutions, whereas their XB1 counterparts were forced to use DRS in order to maintain the 30fps target. (Take The Witcher 3, for example.)Now, for the XB1X — with NO NEED FOR ANY PATCHES BY ANY DEVELOPERS — any game that used DRS will run at 1080p and 30fps/60fps, or whatever the developer set as the game's maximum performance target. In addition, all games will automatically receive better texture filtering (approx. equal to 16x AF).

That alone is impressive, simply because they have ensured that the XB1X is able to leverage nearly all of its additional power toward its 4 year catalogue of over 1100+ games. Yes, the PS4 Pro has Boost Mode (which is pretty damned good), but that's just a small CPU/GPU clock boost to the CPU and one of the two GPUs in the PS4 Pro; one entire GPU sits completely unused unless a developer goes back and creates a patch. And it is not realistic for most developers of a 2 or 3 year old game to spend time/money to create a PS4 Pro (or XB1X) patch. Only games like GTA V or Rainbow Six: Siege — which still sell very well and/or have microtransactions — are worth the time and money to make a PS4 Pro (or XB1X) patch.

So, for existing games, we hope that we get PS4 Pro/XB1X patches for 4K resolutions and/or better 1080p performance. For future games, we will get these optimizations upon release — just like Forza 7 and Assassin's Creed: Origins. But the major difference between the efficacy of the XB1X vs the PS4 Pro is that the XB1X has managed to leverage more of its increased computing power towards its back catalogue while requiring no effort from developers. And immediately upon release. PS4 Pro owners didn't even get Boost Mode until a good 6 months after release.

You are a reviewer. You have a responsibility to educate yourself about the product that you are reviewing and to stifle your confirmation bias as best you can. Nobody can do that perfectly, but you obviously haven't made even a half-assed attempt at objectivity. You don't need to diminish the accomplishments of the XB1X (or the PS4 Pro for that matter) in order to make an argument that multi-platform games play better on a high-end PC. That's like saying that the sky is blue; it's obvious that playing a game on $1500 worth of hardware versus $500 worth of hardware would yield better results. If you can't review something with a sense of perspective for what it is and what it was meant to accomplish, then don't review it.

As I said, I'm primarily a PC gamer, but I also own a PS4, an XB1, an XB1X, and pretty much every other console that's ever been released. And I'll probably buy a PS4 Pro sometime soon. I mainly use my consoles to play exclusive titles, like Killer Instinct, Sunset Overdrive, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Infamous: 2nd Son, etc. You'd be surprised how much more objective and informative you can be to your audience if you take the time to simply educate yourself.

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Tatum Tickles

55" tvs are SO small. Go big or go home. Especially if you are going to all the trouble of reviewing this kind of computer equipment.And comparing a console to a PC is like comparing a full range oven to a toaster oven. Is that something a normal, intelligent, rational person would do? I think we all know the answer to that question. Thanks for putting your IQ on display for all to judge/mock.